Ancient Egypt Vocabulary

What is a chemical powder?

What is a tall, four sided pillar ending in a pyramid shape?

What is a family or group that rules for several generations?

What is a common material used for clothing in Egypt?

What is the business of farming?

What is fertile soil deposited by a river?

What is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land?

What is an instrument consisting of a wooden handle with a free-swinging wooden bar?

What contained the preserved organs from a body?

What is a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure?

What is an Egyptian writing system in which picture symbols stand for meanings or sounds?

What are slightly raised designs?

What is a large stone image used in ancient Egypt, having a man's head on a lion's body?

What is the triangular-shaped deposit of rich soil at a river's mouth?

What is a waterfall or rapids of considerable size?

What is a shepherd's staff with a hooklike curve at one end?

What traveled back and forth between the living and the dead?

What is a ruler of ancient Egypt?

Who was a person who could read and write?

What is a plant that ancient Egyptians used to make paper?

What is a method of supplying water to dry land?

What is the belief in more than one god?

What means to preserve a body after death?

What is the period of rule of a ruler?

What is a stone coffin in which a wood coffin was placed?

What is the belief in only one god?

What is a mechanism for raising water? 

What is an ornamental frame, often oval or oblong in shape, usually enclosing a ruler's name?

What is a flat tomb?